Kylix

Inverted rim; very wide and shallow bowl; turned-up handles below rim; tall, hollow stem; disc base with a ridge on top. Red clay; black glaze; added red and white paint. On floor centre Dionysos, in chiton and himation, pours a libation from a drinking cup onto a pyre on an altar to the left; to the right stands a thyrsos; white dots surround the figure, imitating an inscription; the scene is encircled by a meander border; reserved band on inside of rim. A: in the centre a seated, bearded man with white hair, wearing a chiton and a himation; to his left a youth wearing chlamys over his naked body and petasos, carries two spears and looks back at a horse behind him; behind the horse is a Ionic column; a youth draped in a mantle, leaning on a stick, stands to the right of the seated man; further to the right a bare tree; B: to the left a horse standing in front of a Ionic column, is being reined by a youth wearing chlamys, petasos and high-laced shoes; a spear stands beside him; to the right a man wearing a decorated chlamys and boots, holding a spear; further to the right a man leaning on a staff stands beside a bare tree; reserved base line. Inside of handles and area between attachments reserved; beneath both handles an ivy leaf; ridge on top of base reserved; edge of base reserved; on underside a reserved circle on centre and band near the edge.